New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2016 - REG 8G

8G Pre-injury average weekly earnings of apprentices, trainees and young people--Schedule 3, clause 5(3)(c) of 1987 Act

(1) For the purposes of clause 5(3)(c) of Schedule 3 to the 1987 Act, the worker's pre-injury average weekly earnings are to be determined by having regard to the average weekly amount earned during the latest earning stage--

(a) by other persons who have attained the age of 21 years, and

(b) for the performance by those persons of similar work as the worker (whether or not with the worker's employer).

(2) If there are no persons who have attained that age and who are so employed and performing similar work as the worker, the worker's pre-injury average weekly earnings is the maximum weekly compensation amount.

(3) In this clause--

"latest earning stage" means the period of 52 weeks before the worker attained the age of 21 years.